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The phenomenon of population migration in Arab countries is not just a recent one. The factors contributing to this can be traced back in the work of Ibn Khaldun.1 It can be inferred from Ibn Khaldun’s empirical socio-economic analysis that labour migration in the Arab countries was linked to the natural process of transition of societies from their primitive states to more civilised ones.
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Choudhury, M.A. (1989). The Potential for Labour Mobility between Islamic Countries as an Example of Islamic Economic Co-operation: the Case of the Arab Gulf Region in the 1980s. In: Islamic Economic Co-operation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09902-3_12
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